Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows middle-age parents with two young children. The boys look to be about 3-6 years old. The younger boy looks to be wearing a dress with a pnafore. You can't see mucg of the dress, but the shirt lace-trimmed slleves indicate that he was wearing a dress under the pinny. Often children did not wear pinafores for a stuydio portrait, but we guess mother is taking no chances that he might get his dress dirty. The older boy wears a Norfolk suit with a modest Eton collar.

This cabinet card portrait shows middle-age parents with two young children. The boys look to be about 3-6 years old. The younger boy looks to be wearing a dress with a pnafore. You can't see mucg of the dress, but the shirt lace-trimmed slleves indicate that he was wearing a dress under the pinny. Often children did not wear pinafores for a stuydio portrait, but we guess mother is taking no chances that he might get his dress dirty. The older boy wears a Norfolk suit with a modest Eton collar. The portrait is not dated, but the mount tyle and mother's dress suggest the 1890s, probably about 1895. Note the very basic studio set, probably a low cost studio. And the nount was also the style used by basic studios. It just said 'Cabinet Card' without any identifying studio name. That was not real common in England, but we see a lot of these in Easter Europe.

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